I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
E. E. CUMMINGSSomewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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